Proof of ownership; when someone demands you remove a prefix

Tue Mar 13 15:01:08 UTC 2018

Another thing that would affect me as a service provider would be the account history.  I would probably be more skeptical if this was a long term customer who has been announcing this prefix for a long period of time vs a new customer that just began announcing it.

i.e.  If I just began announcing it and there is an ownership dispute right away, I might suspect my new customer misappropriated the block.  If he had been announcing it for years and now someone wants it taken down, that is a higher burden of proof for me.  As always bottom line is who has the block registered with RAR is the final authority.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:46:31AM -0700, Sean Pedersen wrote:
> We recently received a demand to stop announcing a "fraudulent" 
> prefix. Is there an industry best practice when handling these kind of 
> requests? Do you have personal or company-specific preferences or 
> requirements? To the best of my knowledge, we've rarely, if ever, 
> received such a request. This is relatively new territory.